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\noindent {\bf Visit to Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1953-1955 but how long really?}
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Serious lack of information, basically just 2 letters to Dixmier and his 
address, and contact with Renato.  Find Paulo Ribenboim!  Also deal with
mathematical work from this period.
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\noindent {\bf Visit to Lawrence, Kansas: spring 1955}
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Sarah's Grothendieck information and pictures

Letter to Dixmier from Kansas

P. 55 of R et S, note 44, comments on his work in Kansas.

Grothendieck's redaction from Kansas, and all Sarah says about the way he
was appreciated there.

Finally, illustrate the swing from functional analysis to algebraic geometry, 
using letters to Serre.

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{\bf R\'ef\'erences \`a utiliser encore:} 
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http://www.histrecmed.fr/Kropfinger.html (histoire du CNRS, tr\`es utile)

Takahashi/Saphar/Honig


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